Look unto me, and be ye saved, etc. - This verse and the following contain a plain prediction of the universal spread of the knowledge of God through Christ; and so the Targum appears to have understood it; see Romans 14:11 ; Philemon 2:10 . The reading of the Targum is remarkable, viz., למימרי אתפנו ithpeno lemeymri , look to my Word, ὁ Λογος , the Lord Jesus. read more
I have sworn by myself - במימרי bemeymri , by my Word: and the word - פתגם pithgam , or saying, to distinguish it from the personal substantial Word meymra , mentioned before. See the Targum. The word is gone out of my mouth "Truth is gone forth from my mouth; the word" - So the Septuagint distinguish the members of the sentence, preserving the elegance of the construction and the clearness of the sense. read more
Surely, shall one say, In the Lord have I righteousness and strength "Saying, Only to Jehovah belongeth salvation and power" - A MS. omits לי li , unto me; and instead of אמר לי li amar , he said or shall say unto me, the Septuagint read, in the copy which they used, לאמר lemor , saying. For יבא yabo , He shall come, in the singular, twelve MSS. three ancient) read יבאו yabeu , plural; and a letter is erased at the end of the word in two others: and so the Alexandrine... read more
The conversion of the Gentiles gradual, but ultimately complete. Three stages in the conversion of the Gentiles seem to be marked—one in Isaiah 45:3 ; another in Isaiah 45:20 ; a third in Isaiah 45:23 . I. THE FIRST STAGE . The nations within a certain moderate radius of Palestine are naturally the first to come in—Egypt and Ethiopia, in Africa; and by parity of reasoning, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor, in Asia; Greece, Italy, and Southern Gaul, in Europe. This was very... read more
THE CONVERSION ' OF THE GENTILES A CONSEQUENCE OF THE RESTORATION AND SALVATION OF ISRAEL . "With the prospect of the release of the exiles is associated," says Delitzsch, "in the prophet's perspective, the prospect of an expansion of the restored Church, through the entrance of the fulness of the Gentiles." Egypt, Ethiopia, and Saba are especially mentioned here, as in Isaiah 43:3 , as among the first to come in ( Isaiah 43:14 , Isaiah 43:15 ). Later on, a more... read more
What shall the end be? Things are rightly tested by their issues. We do well to ask—To what is this course tending? in what will it terminate? Taken in a deep and full sense, though not in a short and shallow one, "all is well that ends well." The prophet says that idolatry will be condemned in the ultimate and utter overthrow and confusion of its victims ( Isaiah 45:16 ), while true piety will be finally and fully established ( Isaiah 45:17 ). Of this there was the most ample security... read more
God, Israel, and the world. Again, with solemn iteration, Jehovah declares that he is Creator and God alone. The earth was framed and fitted to be the habitation of man, and the theatre of providential manifestations. I. THE REALITY OF THE ETERNAL . The truth is open, and may be published to all; it is no thing of mystery, secrecy, like heathen esoteric rites or knowledge. "Jehovah's Law is not to be obtained by any occult arts from the under-world." He has not been a... read more
Jehovah: his nature and purposes. I. HIS SOLE DEITY . He is the Creator, and to say this is to say that his is "the Godhead." This truth is repeated "line upon line," and "precept upon precept." Simple truths have an emphasis peculiar to them. They need to be iterated , because the memories of men are unfaithful, their imaginations vagrant, their affections prone to wander from their true and central Object. It was so in ancient times; it is so still. Then men were tempted to... read more
I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth ; literally, in a place of the land of darkness. Jehovah's oracles have not been given, like those of the necromancers, or those of the heathen gods, in dark places of the earth—caves like that of Trophonius (Pansan; 9:29, § 2), or the inmost recesses ( adyta ) of temples; but openly on Sinai, or by the mouth of prophets who proclaimed his words to all Israel. So our Lord says of his own teaching, "I spake openly to the world; I... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 45:21
Bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together - For יועצו yoatsu or yivvaatsu , let them consult, the Septuagint read ידעו yedau , let them know. but an ancient MS. has יועדו yoedu , let them come together by appointment; which may probably be the true reading. read more